Stopping child abandonment in Uganda

Ewafe Project - 31 children reunited with family

Demand for the Ewafe Project has continued to be high with record numbers of children being referred and cared for during 2022. We have been using the dining area as an additional sleeping space and were caring for 94 children at the end of the year. This has increased from 65 at the beginning of the year. Despite these huge numbers, the team at Ewafe have continued to offer a quality service, providing a safe, nurturing and encouraging environment for the children there to rest, recuperate and begin the journey of rehabilitation. These services include counselling, medical support, the teaching of life-skills and crafts and the opportunity to play and be children.

Our overall aim is to reintegrate children with family. In 2022, we were able to reintegrate 31 children with loving family members and continue to provide follow-up services for them. We have identified 19 children in need of foster families, and we have successfully identified and trained 8 foster families. 4 of these families have been assessed by the local authorities and we will hopefully be able to officially place some of these Ewafe children into these safe foster families very soon.

The words of a mother reunited with her child thanks to the Ewafe project: “I had lost hope because I thought that I will never see my daughter again. I travelled to so many different areas across Uganda searching for my child. But am grateful to the Lord that my daughter has finally come back home. Thank you Kids Club Kampala, may God bless you abundantly.”